Mr. Brendan McNamara:

Dialogue is always useful and good. With President Khatami the international community suspended all the resolutions and pressure on the basis that we would have dialogue. The dialogue went ahead and, unfortunately, it went on and on without producing any real fruit. We should have dialogue, but we should also keep these measures in place until we see some real movement, such as the resolutions that will, hopefully, take place at the UN General Assembly. Iran cares about those, because it goes all-out to try to stop those resolutions being passed. They make a difference to Iran. We would not presume to advise our Government on its trade policy with Iran because that is a matter for our Government. However, if, as Ms Rainford said, in the process of doing it there is an opportunity to raise human rights issues that would be wonderful.